[Resolved] Search problem

I am having a problem that must be common out there, but I have no idea how to work around it. We created an index.html page as a front page on the WP website and now every time we search for something instead of producing the search results, we are falling back to the index.html page.
I guess that WP is producing the results but they cannot be accessed because of index.html in the root directory.

Does anyone know how to get around this issue? Do I need to follow WP docs instructions on how to create a search page? Is this going to resolve my issue?

index.html overrides WP’s index.php file, which is the initiator for all WP-related processing. You’ll need to move your index.html contents to a page template in your theme, set that template for a page, and set that page as your front page.

Thank you very much Cooper for your response.
I guess we did not expect that when we decided to create the html page.

However, we live and learn. But I need to ask a question please if you can quickly reply.

In the new page template we need to build, do we just want to place this on top –
<?php
/**
*/
?>
and leave the rest of the HTML page as is with javascript in it included, or do we also need to include these lines –
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”container”>
<?php ttw_put_ttw_widgetarea(‘top-widget-area’,’ttw-top-widget’,’ttw_hide_widg_posts’); ?>
<div id=”content” role=”main”>
<?php
/* Run the loop to output the posts.
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘index’ );
?>
</div><!– #content –>
<?php ttw_put_ttw_widgetarea(‘bottom-widget-area’,’ttw-bot-widget’,’ttw_hide_widg_posts’); ?>
</div><!– #container –>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

We would like to keep what is in the html page if possible and incorporate it into a single php page template. Would this work?